I first read Katherine Dunn's 1989 novel Geek Love several years ago on the recommendation of my friend Robin. At that point, she still lived in Arkansas, and I'd just come through on tour with a heavy metal band from Georgia. She insisted I give it a chance, ignoring my insistence that I don't usually read fiction.… »10/29/14 6:00pm 10/29/14 6:00pm

Now that TLC has presented its fascinating/funny/exploitative portrait of virgins, it's moving on to one of the most commonly mocked segments of our society: Geeks. As a nerd who wishes her fiancé could make such an impressive wookiee noise, I'm certainly not the target audience for this trailer, but I suspect we're… »12/14/11 9:46pm 12/14/11 9:46pm

"Where are the lady geeks?" asks Fast Company blogger Jeffrey To. Over the course of six months, he attended dozens of hackathons, and found that women were sorely underrepresented. »2/28/11 6:00pm 2/28/11 6:00pm

"My nerd cred is attacked all the time. People think that that was fabricated by MTV. That's the hardest rumor for me to deal with," says Liz Lee, star of the faux-reality show My Life as Liz. Boo-fucking-hoo. With over 200,000 Twitter followers and a second season of her own show on MTV, it's stupid, and frankly… »2/16/11 3:52pm 2/16/11 3:52pm

Detmar Blow on Alexander McQueen: "Money changed him and then drugs changed him. I remember reading of how he had flown his boyfriend somewhere for £130,000. What did Issie get? Some clothes. I find that quite shocking."

Although: The Expendables did beat Scott Pilgrim at the box office. Still, she has a point. But it's tough to tell whether she thinks this is a good thing or bad thing. »9/09/10 11:57am 9/09/10 11:57am

In a new video for "Please Don't Leave Me," (the second clip for the same song), Pink plays a "gorgeous giantess" whose suitors literally don't measure up. They're all small. And worse: Dull. »8/09/10 3:13pm 8/09/10 3:13pm

Everyone and their mother, brother, sister, grandma, family dog, pen pal, mailman, paperboy, and Great Aunt Helen is talking about how excited they are to see Star Trek this weekend. Everyone, it seems, except me. »5/10/09 4:25pm 5/10/09 4:25pm

Combine the thrills of conquering Level One of Super Mario Bros. and, um, knitting, and you've got The Mario Scarf Blog, in which Cassie chronicles her "extreme-geek knitting" project: a woolen tapestry depicting the entire first level of the iconic video game, a project equal in scope to the Bayeux Tapestry. No word… »8/08/08 9:20am 8/08/08 9:20am

Good news! Jezebel won "Best Group Weblog" and "Best New Weblog" at the Bloggies at SXSW today. Whee! Is it any surprise that a recent study by the Pew Internet Project has found that girls and young women are the most prolific web users? The Times of London reports that "blogging growth among teenagers is almost… »3/10/08 4:00pm 3/10/08 4:00pm

"Men are like eggs: They must hatch or go bad." So began a story by writer Laura Nolan in the Times of London earlier this month, titled "Where Have All The Men Gone?" "We have an overload of man-boys — which leaves a generation of single, thirtysomething women who are their natural mates bewildered," Nolan noted,… »2/15/08 3:00pm 2/15/08 3:00pm

Would you rather text someone than talk to them face to face? Then you might have technology overload, which means you engage in addictive behavior towards technological devices According to John O'Neill, the director of addictions services at the Menninger Clinic, "I think [technology overload] shares some of the… »1/24/08 2:30pm 1/24/08 2:30pm

With so many special-interest dating sites around that focus on everything from ethnicity to bank balance, it's no wonder that the geeks have created a "safe space" for themselves to hook up online. Sweet On Geeks—"a dating space where gray matters," whatever that means—was created for sci fi enthusiasts and Comic Con… »8/15/07 11:45am 8/15/07 11:45am